William Butler Yeats Quotes
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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If we can unlock the full potential of the World Bank Group staff, I think we can have an even more transformational impact in country after country in the world.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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The bell. It was already time to part, to go to bed. The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell.
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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.
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If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
